Joachim Kroll was a German serial killer and cannibal. Kroll was also called the Duisburg Man Eater. He was convicted of eight murders, although he claimed to have been murdered 14 victims. Kroll began its serial murders in 1955 after his mother died. He worked as a washroom attendant for the german companies Mannesmann and later on Thyssen-Krupp.

Life sentence for Kroll

On 3rd July 1976, Kroll was arrested. In April 1982 he was sentenced from court to life imprisonment. Joachim Kroll died on 1 July 1991 of a heart attack in the prison of Rheinbach.